Hackers have managed to get Google's Android Marketplace running on the RIM PlayBook, potentially bypassing RIM's App Planet though the mod is far from mainstream.
The hack follows the successful rooting of the PlayBook, but isn't for the fainthearted. The process involves installing a beta version of the OS formerly known as …

emulation?

I've wanted QNX to be a mainstream OS option ever since they did that floppy demo on the cover of PCPro or whatever, where you booted it up, configured your modem, and had a full windowing system plus web browser that ran like lightning and used bugger all memory.

Shame their strategy sucks for everyone without a blackberry, or who might not want one forever...